Aep thrshld est mlt freq i&r at Baylor St Luke's Medical Center
1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX · CommonSpirit Health · · NPI 1184622847
$232.05
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$663.00
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$100.00 with Cigna vs $1,043.00 with United — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cigna | Commercial|Surefit | $100.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|PPO | $100.00 | ↓ -57% |
| Cigna | Commercial|HMO | $100.00 | ↓ -57% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|MyBlue Health Exchange | $150.94 | ↓ -35% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Blue Advantage Exchange | $174.83 | ↓ -25% |
| OPTUM | Medicare|All Plans | $179.01 | ↓ -23% |
| Renaissance | Commercial|All Plans | $224.57 | ↓ -3% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STAR | $239.88 | ↑ +3% |
| TCHPCHIP | Medicaid|HMO | $271.83 | ↑ +17% |
| TCH | Commercial|Transplant | $298.35 | ↑ +29% |
| United | Commercial|Optum | $311.61 | ↑ +34% |
| KELSEY | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↑ +34% |
| BCBS | Medicare|All Plans | $311.90 | ↑ +34% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|HMO | $311.90 | ↑ +34% |
| AETNA | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $311.90 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Medicare|TRANSPLANT | $311.90 | ↑ +34% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Other Plans | $311.90 | ↑ +34% |
| CIGNA HEALTHSPRING | Medicare|PPO | $315.02 | ↑ +36% |
| AETNA | Medicare|All Other Plans | $318.14 | ↑ +37% |
| UHC-SecureHorizons | Medicare|All Plans | $318.14 | ↑ +37% |
| Amerivantage | Medicare|All Plans | $321.26 | ↑ +38% |
| SELECTCARE | Medicare|All Plans | $327.49 | ↑ +41% |
| Shell | Commercial|All Plans | $331.50 | ↑ +43% |
| SCANHealth | Medicare|All Plans | $333.73 | ↑ +44% |
| DEVOTED | Medicare|All Plans | $333.73 | ↑ +44% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|Premier | $363.50 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|HMO | $364.65 | ↑ +57% |
| TEXASTRUECHOICE | Medicaid|CHIP | $364.65 | ↑ +57% |
| CHC | Medicaid|CHIP | $364.65 | ↑ +57% |
| KINDRED | Medicare|All Plans | $374.28 | ↑ +61% |
| Cigna Lifesource | Commercial|Transplant | $397.80 | ↑ +71% |
| KelseyCare | Commercial|Exchange | $421.06 | ↑ +81% |
| Coventry | Commercial|PPO | $430.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Humana | Commercial|Transplant | $430.95 | ↑ +86% |
| First Health | Commercial|All Plans | $430.95 | ↑ +86% |
| Employer Direct | Commercial|PPO | $436.66 | ↑ +88% |
| Bright Health | Commercial|All Plans | $442.58 | ↑ +91% |
| Interlink | Commercial|Transplant | $464.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Healthsmart | Commercial|PPO | $464.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Cigna | Commercial|Transplant | $464.10 | ↑ +100% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|All Other Plans | $467.85 | ↑ +102% |
| Wellpoint | Commercial|Exchange | $467.85 | ↑ +102% |
| Community Health Choice | Commercial|Exchange | $467.85 | ↑ +102% |
| Superior Health Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $467.85 | ↑ +102% |
| Harris Health | Commercial|ERS | $467.85 | ↑ +102% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Exchange | $480.33 | ↑ +107% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|PPO Trad | $483.00 | ↑ +108% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $497.25 | ↑ +114% |
| BCBS - TX | Commercial|HMO | $501.86 | ↑ +116% |
| OPTUM | Medicaid|STARPLUS | $547.78 | ↑ +136% |
| USA Health Network | Commercial|All Plans | $563.55 | ↑ +143% |
| MHealth Network | Commercial|PPO | $663.00 | ↑ +186% |
| United | Commercial|Exchange | $696.00 | ↑ +200% |
| United | Commercial|Charter | $938.00 | ↑ +304% |
| NX Health | Commercial|PPO | $1,013.67 | ↑ +337% |
| United | Commercial|PPO | $1,043.00 | ↑ +349% |
| United | Commercial|HMO | $1,043.00 | ↑ +349% |
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Aep thrshld est mlt freq i&r at other Texas hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Luke's Health - The Vintage Hospital | Houston | $232.05 | $100.00 – $663.00 |
| HCA HOUSTON MEDICAL CENTER | Houston | not published | $254.08 – $254.08 |
| HCA HOUSTON WEST | HOUSTON | not published | $254.08 – $254.08 |
| HCA HOUSTON TOMBALL | HOUSTON | not published | $254.08 – $254.08 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER | Dallas | $710.53 | $201.32 – $888.16 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BRENHAM | Brenham | $938.63 | $193.20 – $1,407.95 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - BUDA | Suite 110 | $746.20 | $149.24 – $932.75 |
| BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE MEDICAL CENTER - CENTENNIAL | Frisco | $710.53 | $189.48 – $888.16 |